A truly green party can’t avoid taking stands to the left of both Labour and National when both those parties are reluctant to bring to heel the main corporate despoilers of our environment.
How much is our freedom being eroded in the name of 'security'?
How close are we to a surveillance society?; Is the 'war on terror' to blame?
Speakers include: Keith Locke, MP; Tim Mc Bride: Devonport CB member, civil rights advocate, author, commentator, lawyer & lecturer and Pieter Watson, North Shore Green Party candidate
14.12.2000 KEITH LOCKE* says serious privacy issues arise from proposed laws that would allow police to intercept e-mails. Legislation allowing police to intercept e-mails and hack into computers is before a parliamentary select committee.
The redeployment of the SAS to Afghanistan will again put New Zealand troops in the midst of the 'War on Terror'. Everyone from Amnesty to the UN has been having a go over the mistreatment of prisoners. How clean are New Zealand's hands on this issue?